Latin Literature Timeline

Different contributions, famous literary works, and important features of the latin iterature, including timeline.

1. Different contributions, famous literary works, and important features of the Latin literature Submitted by: Maria Angela P. Mabasa

2. Latin Literature Ancient Latin Literature The genres, other language and literary art forms Timeline Outline

3. Latin literature, the body of writings in Latin, primarily produced during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, when Latin was a spoken language. When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the western medieval world until it was superseded by the Romance languages it had generated and by other modern languages. After the Renaissance, the writing of Latin was increasingly confined to the narrow limits of certain ecclesiastical and academic publications . Latin Literature

4. Ancient Latin literature Literature in Latin began as translation from the Greek, a fact that conditioned its development. Latin authors used earlier writers as sources of stock themes and motifs, at their best using their relationship to tradition to produce a new species of originality. They were more distinguished as verbal artists than as thinkers; the finest of them have a superb command of concrete detail and vivid illustration. Their noblest ideal was Humanitas, a blend of culture and kindliness, approximating the quality of being “civilized”.

5. Comedy Tragedy Epic and Epyllion Didactic poetry Satire Iambic, Lyric, and Epigram Elegy The Genres

6. Rhetoric and Oratory History Biography and Letters Philosophical and Learned writings Literary criticism Fiction Other language and literary art forms

7. The Timeline

8. c. 185 BC Plautus and Terence, in the second and third century BC, create a Roman drama based on Greek originals

9. c. 160 BC The Roman statesman Cato the Elder writes Origines ('Origins'), a history of Rome which survives only in fragments

10. 81 BC Cicero, whose speeches become models of oratory, makes his first appearance in a Roman court

11. 37 BC Virgil's reputation is established by his ten Eclogues, influenced by the Italian countryside in the region of his birth near Mantua

12. c. 34 BC Maecenas buys a farm for Horace, in the Sabine hills near Tivoli - the most fruitful of his many acts of patronage

13. 27 BC Livy begins writing and publishing his History of Rome, a task which will occupy him for forty years

14. 23 BC The first three books of Horace's Odes are published, written on his Sabine farm

15. c. 20 BC The excellence of the arts, particularly literature, during the reign of Augustus Caesar causes it to be remembered as a golden age of culture

16. c. 20 BC A collection of witty love poems, entitled Amores , brings Ovid an early success

17. 19 BC Virgil dies just after completing the Aeneid , and imperial command from Augustus Caesar prevents his executor from destroying the epic

18. 2 c. AD The Golden Ass . The  Metamorphoses of Apuleius — which St. Augustine referred to as The Golden Ass ( Asinus aureus )  — is the only Ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety.

19. 8 AD The Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphōseōn librī : "Books of Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.

20. 78 AD Natural History , or  Naturalis Historia by Pliny, is a fascinating glimpse into the knowledge of the ancient world. Published in the Roman Empire, this work purports to cover all the knowledge known in the Roman Empire: astronomy, geography, botany, physiology, agriculture, mining, sculpture, painting, and more.

21. 98 AD Tacitus begins his career with two specialized but influential works of history, one on Britain and the other on Germany

22. c. 125 Suetonius, librarian to Trajan and personal secretary to Hadrian, is well placed to research his racy Lives of the Caesars

23. c. 170 Marcus Aurelius is rare among emperors in writing twelve books of philosophical Meditations

24. c. 244 Plotinus, moving from Alexandria to Rome, teaches the influential philosophy later known as Neo-Platonism

25. AD 397-400 Confessions  (Latin: Confessiones ) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between AD 397 and 400 . The work outlines St. Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.

26. c. 525 Boethius, in prison in Pavia and awaiting execution, writes the Consolation of Philosophy

27. 1509-1511 In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus This more modern Latin work was written in the year 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus, a humanist and Catholic priest from the Netherlands. A highly religious figure, Erasmus wrote In Praise of Folly as a satirical work in which vices are celebrated. 

28. 1595 The writings of Matteo Ricci introduce Kung Fu Tzu to Europe under a Latin version of his name - Confucius

29. Non-prints: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine ) https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_literature https:// www.britannica.com/art/Latin-literature http://www.historyworld.net/timesearch/default.asp?conid=1061&bottomsort=19981&direction=NEXT&keywords=Latin%20literature&timelineid= References